Intimacy

It starts with a series of words and the simple question, “Positive or negative?” Words like family, spirituality, work, religion, Jesus, Buddha, prayer.  Positive or negative, what is your experience? What is your story? In Crave: The Documentary author Erwin McManus interviewed people from all walks of life looking for the stories that connect...

Would you pay to hire a friend for an hour? Although there are plenty of online dating sites, RentaFriend.com may be the first to offer a friend-connection service ... for a price. It will cost you $10/hour to connect with a friend in your local area. The website describes its services as follows: RentAFriend.com is a website that allows you...

If  you could wish for anything in the world, what do you most desire? Take a minute and dream big.  If you could write the story of your life any way at all, what would it look like? What would you give in exchange for the satisfaction of that longing? We all long for something more – and it’s not necessarily the things you can buy at the...

How are your relationships with your family, your friends? As a culture we do not have strong relationships the way that we used to.  In the past there were very strong communities.  Generations stayed in the same area and spoke into each others’ lives.  It takes years to build the type of friendship where you can speak the truth and have it...

The news is full of crumbling relationships.   Disputes and betrayals result in divorce, devastation and in one tragic story this week, even death.    We can’t help but watch with a combination of disgust and intrigue.   The people who we’ve placed on the pedestal of success are letting us down.   In a sick way it makes them seem normal. Cincinnati...

When someone holds back in a relationship, it’s uncomfortable.   It creates uncertainty.  It makes us doubt when we desperately need to trust.  I don’t think I could love and trust God if I felt he loved me with reluctance.  It would bring out all of my insecurities.  I would wonder what I needed to do to help him fully embrace me. When...

As I think about the friends in my life, some have been life long relationships others were there for only a season. Each of  them played a part in who I have become.   I may never know why some relationships ended.  It helps to look at the impact my friendships made on my life during the happy times.   Some relationships were filled with betrayal...